Students performing at the partially proficient level generally require prompting to demonstrate emerging knowledge and skills in vocabulary and concept development; comprehension skills and response to text; writing as a product; and mechanics with an inconsistent level of performance using modified and supported materials.
Partially proficient students are emerging in:

Using pictures or a dictionary to define new words in text through matching

Writing a personal narrative, or identify elements of different types of writing such as flashback and/or point of view

Engaging in pre-writing using graphic organizers or outlining

Writing sentences with appropriate capitalization and punctuation, including commas and colons in lists

Proficient

Students performing at the proficient level may require prompting to demonstrate basic knowledge and skills in vocabulary and concept development; comprehension skills and response to text; writing as a product; and mechanics with a moderate level of performance using modified and supported materials.

Proficient students typically:

Choose dictionary definitions that best define new words in text, given choices

Make connections between new words and known vocabulary based on context clues

Identify connotative and denotative meanings of words

Identify propaganda in advertisements and its type or purpose

Identify and analyze the use of fiction elements such as characters, character traits, plot sequence and mood in text

Write prose with appropriate textual elements, such as:

setting, plot and characters for fiction,

biographical details in chronological order for a biography or autobiography, or

essays with a clear purpose and supporting details.

Write using some mechanics appropriately such as paragraphs, grammar, transitional words, punctuation, and capitalization

Advanced Proficient

Students performing at the advanced proficient level generally demonstrate knowledge and skills in vocabulary and concept development; comprehension skills and response to text; writing as a product; and mechanics independently with a high level of performance using modified and supported materials.
Advanced proficient students typically:

Use a dictionary to define new words and refine comprehension based on context clues

Identify context clues such as restatement and/or contrast that enhance comprehension of new words

Demonstrate understanding of complex words and relationships between words by:

identifying the correct use of words with multiple meanings,

matching synonyms, antonyms, connotations and denotations

identifying correct use, and/or

comparing complex words

Identify propaganda in multiple sources, the type of propaganda used and its purpose

Identify fiction elements such as character traits, plot sequence, setting and mood

Explain how fiction elements in text influence the progression and/or resolution of plot